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Birmingham Royal Ballet: a sparkling and sobering close to the season

Birmingham Royal Ballet in Sir Frederick Ashton’s Birthday Offering © Johan Persson
Birmingham Royal Ballet (BRB) close their 25/26 season with an ambitious triple bill running for just four performances on their home turf at the Birmingham Hippodrome.
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BRB’s Sir Peter Wright Centenary: a fitting tribute

Sir Peter Wright Centenary with Birmingham Royal Ballet © Johan Persson
A splendid evening of celebration for Sir Peter Wright at the Birmingham Hippodrome focusing on excerpts from his own classical ballets and The Green Table by Kurt Jooss.
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A powerful program of ABT works

Marcel Gomes gave us a Death to remember in Jooss' Green Table.
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Krieg, Macht und Hoffnung: Shadows am Dutch National Ballet

Yugen © Michel Schnater
Das Niederländische Nationalballett zeigt zum Saisonauftakt einen aktuellen und kritischen Ballettabend.
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Before the war came: why The Green Table is urgent today

Marion Tait as the Mother, Joseph Cipolla as Death, Karen Waldie as the Woman in The Green Table © Leslie E Spatt 1992
Birmingham Royal Ballet’s Jonathan Payn talks about The Green Table by Kurt Jooss, first performed in Paris in 1932 – and how choreography can respond to political collapse and the threat of war.